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Many Drugstores Won’t Dispense Opioid Antidote As Required

November 26, 2018 by ATForum

“People who overdose on opioids have one lifeline, the drug naloxone, but two new studies find that many pharmacies won’t offer this lifesaving antidote without a doctor’s blessing.

Though many states have passed laws mandating that naloxone be made available without a prescription, researchers from California found that fewer than 25 percent of pharmacies in that state would give the drug without a prescription. And in the second study from Texas, investigators found that although 8 in 10 drugstores would dispense the drug, less than 7 in 10 had naloxone in stock.

Why? A lack of training, a lack of desire to make room for the drug on their shelves, and outright moral objections to giving an opioid user a medication that might encourage drug abuse, the scientists said.”

Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-drugstores-wont-opioid-antidote-required.html

Source: MedicalExpress.com – November 13, 2018

See related article: Some pharmacies thwart efforts to improve access to the opioid overdose reversal drug available at: http://www2.philly.com/philly/health/some-pharmacies-thwart-efforts-to-improve-access-to-the-opioid-overdose-reversal-drug-20181114.html

Filed Under: 2018, News Updates

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